Re: pnm loader fixes and tests

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com> writes:
> > Is anyone backporting these fixes to the stable branch where they are
> > still absolutely critical?
> 
> It's nontrivial because the code has changed quite a bit. I think for
> the most part the stable branch will need its own test suite action
> and someone to work on it for a week or so. 
> 
> I don't have a week...
> 
> Agree it's critical. Evolution is pretty darn easy to crash via
> malicious email while it remains unfixed, right.

Note however, than none of the fixes that we are making at the
current time actually address the issue of _auditing_ the image
loaders, and until that is done, there will be easy ways of crashing
(or worse) any program using GdkPixbuf.

Regards,
                                        Owen